Redfin.com, and Realtor.com are really good for looking at school ratings, for crime you will want to look at the census bureau, or even this website https://www.areavibes.com/orlando-fl/rock+lake/

Usually, if you have a rock star agent they can give you some guidance. 

And is walking into a turnkey ready to rock building, the seller (whom I am presuming is now broke, but that may not be the case) even left the tables and chairs behind, all ready to have plates full of unethical inorganic genetically modified red meat dipped in butter placed on them. 

My sister has a decent sized rental portfolio and has seen her cash flow totally eroded over the past 5 years even after refinancing all the properties to rock bottom interest rates during the pandemic due to the tax increases, and many of them are more than 2/3 of the way paid off.

I mean, most of these people are in a rock and a hard place and need help. 

Everyone rocks here :-

I looked back at my contracts and the DD was reasonable.High Point Oct 2022 DD: $5,000, EMD $0Blowing Rock Sept 2021 DD: $3,000, EMD $0Greensboro Dec 2020 DD $500, EMD $1,000Greensboro Aug 2020 DD $3,000, EMD $0The worst buy of those was the High Point house and I should have stayed at $500 DD and walked away. 

Betting that is going to happen again while new smart participants have entered the market(sophisticated players like black rock) and retail (everyone who watches finance youtube knows about real estate) I think is a foolish bet.

The best thing you can do to protect yourself is to get a rock solid lease and good insurance and make sure you keep your property maintained and provide all the safety equipment required by law.I only own one property atm and I don't even own the house I live in so I don't think the risk is worth the cost but once I get a few more properties I will definately get an LLC for my properties.

You have to be living under a rock (if you are a MF investor) to not know the challenges MF is facing right now.